ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT

Assessments in Round 7

23/2 – 13/3

Find out what assessments are happening in the current assessment round, with links to appropriate revision resources. Check the full assessment schedule to see what’s coming up later in the year.

Year 7

Essay writing holistic assessment - you will be assessed on all four Year 7 essay writing skills

Discourse Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Antagonist, Biography, Fiction, Paragraph, Prose, Suspense, Tension

Year 8

Creating a character Skill Check
- Revise using this guide

Describing a setting in vivid detail Skill Check
- Revise using this guide

Discourse Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Biography, Pathetic fallacy, Direct address, Unreliable narrator, Dramatic irony, Form, Paragraph, Prose, Suspense, Tension

Year 9

Full GCSE-style essay on ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
- Revise using your copy of the story and notes from class; you can also revise the skills you’re least confident with using our essay writing guides

Rhetorical devices Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Alliteration, Assonance, Listing, Metaphor, Oxymoron, Personification, Repetition, Rule of three, Sibilance, Simile

Year 10

Linking analysis to big ideas Skill Check
- Revise using our guide to this skill

Linking analysis to context and the writer’s perspective Skill Check
- Revise using our guide to this skill

Creating a character Skill Check
- Revise using our guide to this skill

Rhetorical devices Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Alliteration, Assonance, Listing, Metaphor, Oxymoron, Personification, Repetition, Rule of three, Sibilance, Simile